'Missionary' has been out for nearly a month! There are numerous things I underestimated about the pre and post-publishing process, but ultimately I am happy with the first story I've put out into the world.

There was a lot of fretting about making this one book, and I'd cut many pages (some entire chapters) from the first book, anticipating an eventual decision to cram the other two parts of my adventure into a singular reading experience. But when the cutting of Book One still turned out 230 pages, and Book Two is only 2/3rds of the way complete and already 270 pages, I couldn't justify finishing a three-part story as a tome numbering well beyond 700 pages.